service-oriented management

A SOM solution supervises and controls the delivery of a service from a service provider to a service requester. (It can also be seen as supervising and controlling the consumption of services by a requestor from a number of providers.) A SOM solution should be able to manage any service from any technology, without requiring code changes, special deployment, or special development environments. SOM solutions are runtime solutions rather than development or deployment solutions.

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